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Professor John Leshy, a Harry D. Sunderland Distinguished Professor, has been at Hastings since 2001. Previously he was Solicitor (General Counsel) of the U.S. Department of the Interior (1993-2001); Special Counsel to Chairman George Miller of the Resources Committee, U.S. House of Representatives (1992-93); Professor of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona (1980-1992); Associate Solicitor of the Department of the Interior for Energy & Resources (1977-80); and with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in California (1972-77) and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1969-72). He co-chaired the Obama-Biden transition team for the Interior Department in 2008-2009. He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, books on the Mining Law of 1872 and the Arizona Constitution, and is co-author of casebooks on federal land and resources law and water law. A graduate of Harvard College, he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, his alma mater, in 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2011.